Draano

Draano t1_j61e35y wrote

Reply to comment by Bamaji1 in Riding commuter rail is so cool and so much cheaper by ownage516

Express made 8 stops and the local made 16.

Since I was going to WFC, I'd go to Newark Penn Station and switch to the PATH. So any train would get me to Newark.

Its been over a decade, but I still get an uneasy feeling when I hear the 05:25 train's horn sound when letting the dogs out.

1

Draano t1_j613owk wrote

Reply to Riding commuter rail is so cool and so much cheaper by ownage516

I commuted from Belmar to lower Manhattan by train and it took 2:20 each way on a good day. Then I started taking the bus from the Monmouth rest area on the parkway. It was $30 less per week and took 1:40.

I liked rail - very smooth ride, comfortable and quiet. But losing an extra 1:20 of my life per day, nearly 7 hours a week, was just nuts.

2

Draano t1_j5qhwgg wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Not OP, but my guess is it's similar to the company that "started in a garage". Built/assembled in the basement, and shipped by the person in the company who happened to have the job of running to the post office, UPS or FedEx. Probably picking up lunch from McDonalds on their way back to the basement/office.

7

Draano t1_j56jfvo wrote

Reply to comment by Vegan_Honk in BBC News: FAA outage: US airline regulators blame contractor for travel chaos by Gigglemind

In the the most recent investment bank I worked at, no single person had the authority to make a change to a production system without multiple approvals, and a change would have to have a fellow technician verify the install and fallback process, there had to be documentation showing a test of the change as well as the implementation and fallback process on a staging system. If it was an emergency change that had implications to a live system with user impact, there would be 15 - 20 people dialed into a call and online to the system, observing every part of the change. Every user who would be impacted would have to be aware, and their C-level management would have to sign off on the change. And just getting the access to implement a one-time change required CIO approval.

But that's people's money. It's not just *actual lives at stake-*level stuff.

3

Draano t1_j4vr9rk wrote

Reply to comment by metsurf in TIL "A Christmas Story" was initially overlooked and only became a classic after Ted Turner purchased the rights and began airing it yearly on cable TV. by habalushy

I had forgotten how late it was on. A few years later, I read Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (and other disasters). Jean was a master storyteller. It was so great that he narrated A Christmas Story. Nobody could have told his stories the way he did.

1

Draano t1_j4vqcda wrote

Reply to TIL "A Christmas Story" was initially overlooked and only became a classic after Ted Turner purchased the rights and began airing it yearly on cable TV. by habalushy

Old geezer checking in. Jean Shepard had a radio show on WOR-710 AM radio when I was a kid. My parents used to listen while going to sleep. I picked it up when I was probably 7 or 8 when I found out that a good friend also was listening at night - he was always going on about the ornithopter that Jean Shepard was hawking on his show. But the way he would spin a yarn, talking about Flick & Wanda and a whole cast of characters that he grew up with was really vivid and funny and heart-warming.

1

Draano t1_ivpgx6g wrote

Reply to comment by dhork in Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly wins re-election, defeating GOP challenger Derek Schmidt, NBC News projects by Hrekires

Many people were wondering "What does Trump have on all these guys, that they'd all roll over for him?" Must be some serious kompromat. In retrospect, I think Trump just said "I'll give you a supreme court that's guaranteed to dump Roe vs. Wade, and you can all claim a huge victory forever." And that happened. He put people on the court who have no business being anywhere near a bench, let alone the highest court in the nation. No great wall, no beautiful health plan, no tax returns, no magical vanishing plague - nothing he promised the nation occurred. But he delivered on his behind-closed-doors promise.

7

Draano t1_itrbdjl wrote

Reply to Investigation underway into daughter's allegation Iowa man was prolific serial killer by livestrong10

The location is Thurman, Iowa, population 167. I looked at a map of that area and it appears that there's not a whole lot there. Iowa has 1/3 the population of New Jersey but over 6x the land. Sounds lonely. If the property where the well was has recently been logged, it sounds like a place where nobody would ever know what was going on there.

The alleged mass murder was a gun and drug smuggler. If you're bringing drugs from another area, women around the drug supply aren't exactly tethered to a community - they're people who live at the fringes.

47